Who blocks AI · #1012 in the Majestic Million

robots.txt · checked 9 Nov 2026

Does lonelyplanet.com block AI crawlers?

Yes. lonelyplanet.com’s robots.txt blocks 1 of the 19 AI crawlers we track, including GPTBot. Search engines such as Googlebot and Bingbot may crawl it.

GPTBotBlocked OAI-SearchBotAllowed ClaudeBotAllowed PerplexityBotAllowed Google-ExtendedAllowed CCBotAllowed

robots.txt: www.lonelyplanet.com/robots.txt · 76 lines
llms.txt: none
Checked: 9 November 2026, as canaicrawl. We check again every week.

Every bot, and the line that decides

Search engines

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`Googlebot`	Google	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Bingbot`	Microsoft	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`DuckDuckBot`	DuckDuckGo	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Applebot`	Apple	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`PetalBot`	Huawei	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`YandexBot`	Yandex	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Baiduspider`	Baidu	Allowed	no rule matches the home page

AI search

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`OAI-SearchBot`	OpenAI	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`PerplexityBot`	Perplexity	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Claude-SearchBot`	Anthropic	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`DuckAssistBot`	DuckDuckGo	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Amazonbot`	Amazon	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`YouBot`	You.com	Allowed	no rule matches the home page

AI training

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`GPTBot`	OpenAI	Blocked	line 75 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: GPTBot`
`ClaudeBot`	Anthropic	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Google-Extended`	Google	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`CCBot`	Common Crawl	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Applebot-Extended`	Apple	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`GoogleOther`	Google	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Meta-ExternalAgent`	Meta	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Bytespider`	ByteDance	Allowed	no rule matches the home page

User-triggered fetchers

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`ChatGPT-User`	OpenAI	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Claude-User`	Anthropic	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Perplexity-User`	Perplexity	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`MistralAI-User`	Mistral	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Meta-ExternalFetcher`	Meta	Allowed	no rule matches the home page

SEO tools

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`AhrefsBot`	Ahrefs	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`SemrushBot`	Semrush	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`MJ12bot`	Majestic	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`DotBot`	Moz	Allowed	no rule matches the home page

View www.lonelyplanet.com/robots.txt · 76 lines

1User-agent: *

2Disallow: /404

3Disallow: /500

4Disallow: /gateway/

5Disallow: /thorntree/*

6Disallow: /members/*

7Disallow: /assets/

8Disallow: /*?create_review=true*

9Disallow: */v/vid/*?tag

10Disallow: /*/articles/category/*

11Disallow: *?type

12Disallow: *?sort

13Disallow: *?subtype

14Disallow: *?neighborhoods

15Disallow: */pa-act/

16Disallow: */pa-tou/

17Disallow: */poi-sho/

18Disallow: */poi-ent/

19Disallow: */poi-sle/

20Disallow: */poi-dri/

21Disallow: */poi-eat/

22Disallow: */profile

23Disallow: */hotels*

24Disallow: */nightlife*

25Disallow: */entertainment*

26Disallow: */restaurants*

27Disallow: */shopping*

28Disallow: */attractions?page=*

29Disallow: /api/*

30Disallow: /search?*

31Disallow: *searchResult?q

32Disallow: *search?q

33Disallow: *?utf8

34Disallow: *?search

35Disallow: *?&search

36Disallow: *&search

37Disallow: *?sort_dir

38Disallow: *?sort_order

39Disallow: *?filters

40Disallow: *?ab_tours_cta

41Disallow: *?authenticity_token

42Disallow: *?ab_viator_activity_cta

43Disallow: *?lpaffil

44Disallow: *?category

45# Prefix match. A trailing * is literal for many AI crawlers and would not match these URLs.

46Disallow: /_server-islands/

47Disallow: /_astro/*

49Sitemap: https://www.lonelyplanet.com/sitemap-index.xml

50Sitemap: https://www.lonelyplanet.com/sitemaps/articles/sitemap.xml

51Sitemap: https://www.lonelyplanet.com/sitemaps/articles/directories/sitemap.xml

52Sitemap: https://www.lonelyplanet.com/sitemaps/destinations/sitemap.xml

53Sitemap: https://www.lonelyplanet.com/sitemaps/destinations/directories/sitemap.xml

54Sitemap: https://www.lonelyplanet.com/sitemaps/points-of-interest/sitemap.xml

55Sitemap: https://www.lonelyplanet.com/sitemaps/points-of-interest/directories/sitemap.xml

56Sitemap: https://www.lonelyplanet.com/sitemap-0.xml

57Sitemap: https://www.lonelyplanet.com/sitemaps/google-news/sitemap.xml

58Sitemap: https://www.lonelyplanet.com/sitemaps/legal/sitemap.xml

59Sitemap: https://www.lonelyplanet.com/sitemaps/journeys/sitemap.xml

60Sitemap: https://www.lonelyplanet.com/sitemaps/landing-pages/sitemap.xml

62User-agent: BLEXBot

63Crawl-delay: 10

65User-agent: Blekkobot

66Crawl-delay: 10

68User-agent: 008

69Disallow: /

71User-agent: voltron

72Disallow: /

74User-agent: GPTBot

75Disallow: /

What do the bots actually get?

This page reads robots.txt, which states what lonelyplanet.com asks of crawlers. A firewall or CDN can still refuse a bot that robots.txt allows. The live check requests the page as each bot and shows the status it gets.

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History

19 October 2026: first checked.

Questions

Does lonelyplanet.com block GPTBot?

Yes. lonelyplanet.com’s robots.txt disallows GPTBot from the whole site (line 75: Disallow: /). GPTBot is OpenAI’s crawler for training data; blocking it doesn’t affect ChatGPT search, which uses OAI-SearchBot. Checked 9 November 2026.

Does lonelyplanet.com block ClaudeBot?

No. lonelyplanet.com’s robots.txt lets ClaudeBot crawl the site. ClaudeBot is Anthropic’s crawler for training data. Checked 9 November 2026.

Does lonelyplanet.com block Google-Extended?

No. lonelyplanet.com’s robots.txt lets Google-Extended crawl the site. Google-Extended is the token that controls whether Google may use pages for Gemini training and grounding; it doesn’t affect Google Search. Checked 9 November 2026.

Does lonelyplanet.com block PerplexityBot?

No. lonelyplanet.com’s robots.txt lets PerplexityBot crawl the site. PerplexityBot is the crawler that indexes pages for Perplexity’s answers. Checked 9 November 2026.

Can ChatGPT search find lonelyplanet.com?

Yes. lonelyplanet.com’s robots.txt lets OAI-SearchBot crawl the site. OAI-SearchBot is the crawler behind ChatGPT search; blocking it keeps the site out of ChatGPT’s search answers. Checked 9 November 2026.